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Old Mar 28, 2007 | 1:20 pm
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etch5895
 
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Originally Posted by Dovster
I have never been able to figure out what constitutes a trip for an American who lives overseas.

Let's say that I live in Israel and my last visit to the US was April 2006. Since then, I have flown TLV-MXP, TLV-CDG, TLV-FRA and TLV-MAD.

April 2007 comes and I fly back to the States. Am I only supposed to list Israel, or also Italy, France, Germany and Spain?
I would only list the countries involved in that flight to the states. How would immigration know where else you've been in Europe without passport stamps? Once you get 'scanned in' to Europe, I don't see how they could track where else you've been unless the immigration officer has access to your credit card records or other means.

I guess you would have all those stamps in your passport, though, if you are traveling between Israel and those countries and then returning. I guess it also depends on which passport you've used (I'm assuming you have both a US and Israeli).
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